The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1887-11-16
Now is the time to gather and dry
flowers for holiday deco


rations.
Tree planting can be safely performed
in localities where the climate is mild
through autumn.
The pyrus iaponica, brilliant in bios
SONS and handsome in foliage is one of
the finest and hardest of shrubs for the
lawn.
Pigs should have the run of yard,
and should be provided with cut grass,
clover tares or lucerne, says London
Field.
A writer in the American Garden says
that a tomato vine ''can be made to
Chamber to a height of eight or ten
feet"
If horses are uniformly well and COM
fortably bedded, they require the mini
mum amount of currying and brushing
to keep them clean.
The guinea fowl is recommended as
great forager, and destroys numerous in
sects that hens will not touch. Beside,
they do not scratch the garden.
1t has been well said that colts in
tended for farm use should be well
trained to all kinds of work when two
years old, and to light driving before.
Mr.. Waldo F. Brown well says that
most farmers do not know what really
profitable cows they possess, simply be-
cause they have never properly fed and
tested them.
The Cultiodt0r says clover hay is very
nutritious anyway, but the second crop,
for calves, colts, sheep or mllch cows,
is worth nearly half as much again as
the first.
A Massachusetts farmer recommends
the Southdown sheep as the best breed
for small farmers who would raise their
own animal food and become independent
of the butcher.
The Western Plowman takes very sem
sible view as to raising nut trees. 1t
predicts that in the future trees good for
nothing but wood will be grubbed out,
and walnuts and hickories put in their
place.
Experiments with commercial fertil-
izers in England indicate that nitro
genous manures appear to be Of little use
the second season on grass. Super
phosphate and kainit had more lasting
effect.
Chickens are cheaper than beef, and,
an exchange remarks, there are no per-
sons who can better afford to enjoy
good broiled chicken or chicken soup
than the farmer, and the late chickens
should be put to home use.
An exchange suggests that sand may
be used to advantage by mixing it with
manure, or busting it over stable floors,
or using it as bedding. 1t prevents the
manure from becoming too compact and
lumpy, and makes it like old compost
Dr. Salmon last month told the Society
for Promoting Agricultural Science, in
New York, that lime will kill the germs
of hog cholera. The lime need not be
applied at a greater rate than fifty
bushels per acre upon land used as hog
pasture.
The feeding places of poultry should
be spaded up and put in some kind of
crop. They are excellent locations for
small gardens, and usually produce well;
buff they are not convenient for gar
den purposes SOW oats on the ground,
then turn on the fowls when the oats are
six inches high.
A correspondent of the Cutirator
favors fertilizing potatoes in the hill:
''The well-skilled cultivator knows too
well that the great volume of the roots of
plants lie near the surface, and that the
absorbing roots of any plants are thick
est near the plant and decrease about as
the square root of the distance increases,
Beyond peradventure the greater por-
tion of the soil between the rows is not
touched by root dnring the time it is
being cultivated. AS much manure should
not be given to few long roots, as when
the roots are very thick"
The most suitable soil for rose culture
is strong rich loan, made richer, if
necessary, by frequent applications of
manure in liquid form. Cultivators use
ground bones, SCOT, wood ashes and
sheep manure. Good results are secured
through a variety of fertilizers. The soil
should be dug and hoed, not merely to
keep down the weeds, but to insure the
health of the plant. A good time to
stir the surface of the soil is after having
thoroughly drenched the rose bed. BY
this method one prevents the top of the
ground from becoming hard.
Mr.. Henry Klanke, Clough P. O.,
Hamilton County, Ohio, communicates
the following remedy and preventive for
hog cholera: When you observe your
pigs losing their appetite and seemingly
sleepy, give them about half an ounce of
pepper dissolved in warm water to the
hog. Keep the pens clean and it will
turn out all right. He also gives the
following remedy for proud flesh; Open
prune, take out the pit, and apply the
flesh side of the prune to the diseased
flesh, keeping it bound on. The wound
will rapidly get well-disappearing in
twentyfour hours.